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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can't figure this one out -- Post 302488583 by Straitsfan on Monday 17th of January 2011 08:18:10 PM
Old 01-17-2011
Can't figure this one out --

I'm putting together a shell script while I'm learning UNIX -- just for myself. It's a little script that simply takes some vendor names and writes them to a file. So far I'm at the stage where the user enters the name of the file and places it in a folder called vendorlists:


Code:
 * ) touch ~/vendorlists/$vendorfilename.txt  #places file into the vendorlists folder 
                             clear
Code:


When I entered this

First Vendor File

It created three separate files -- one called 'First' in the vendorlists folder in the home folder, a second and third named Vendor and File.txt, respectively, in the Scripts folder (which contains the shell script itself) I can't figure out why this happened. Can someone explain to me?
 

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INSTALLSIEVE(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   INSTALLSIEVE(1)

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NAME
installsieve - user utility for managing sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
installsieve DESCRIPTION
installsieve is a utility that allows users to manage their sieve scripts kept on the server. OPTIONS
-v <name> View script with the given name. The script if retrieved sucessfully is output to standard output. -l List all of the scripts currently on the server. If one of the scripts is active a arrow is printed indicating that it is the active script. -p <port> Port to connect to. If left off this defaults to "sieve" as defined in /etc/services. -i <file> Install a file onto the server. If a script with the same name already exists on the server it is overwritten. Upon sucessfully putting the script on the server the script is set active. If <file> has the extension .script it is chopped when put on the server since sieve names may not contain a '.'. -a <name> Set <name> as the active script. The list of available names can be obtained from the '-l' option.. -d <name> Delete the sieve script on the server with <name>. -m <mechanism> Force installsieve to use <mechanism> for authentication. If not specified the strongest authentication mechanism is chosen. -g <name> Get the sieve script with <name> and save it to disk with a ".script" extension. If a file with that name already exists it is overwritten. -u <user> Userid/Authname to use for authentication; by default, the current user. CMU
Project Cyrus INSTALLSIEVE(1)
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